INDEX

Ælfric, 17, 40, 42, 43, 154, 155, 157

Alexander the Great, 51, 53, 105, 137

Alfred, King, 17, 19, 33, 34, 35, 41, 43

Amadace, Sir, 84, 130

Amadas et Ydoine, 55, 77

Ancren Riwle, 154-7

Andersen, Hans, 83, 128

Anelida and Arcite, 113, 174, 175, 180, 181

Apollonius of Tyre, 57

Arnold, Matthew, 8

Arthur, King, 50, 86, 87, 120

Auchinleck MS., 90

Ayenbite of Inwit, 150

Ballads, 116-23

Barbour, 162

Bede, 34, 37

Bentham on the Middle Ages, 10

Beowulf, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 34, 43, 45, 52

Bestiary, 138, 154

Bevis of Southampton, Sir, 25, 98

Boccaccio, 28, 174, 175, 179, 181, 182, 185

Boethius, 34, 41, 43, 171

Book of the Duchess, 173, 178, 181, 183

Book of the Duchess Blanche, 133

Britain,’ ‘Matter of, 50-1, 52, 53, 85

Bruce, 162

Bunyan, John, 98, 132, 138, 139, 145

Burne, Minstrel, 58

Burns, Robert, 56, 114, 115

Byrhtnoth, 29

Cædmon, 34, 35, 37

Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, The, 186

Canute, his boat song, 107, 109

Canterbury Tales, The, 28, 64, 168, 170, 184, 185, 186

Carole, The, 61, 63, 64

Chansons de Geste, 52, 70

Charlemagne, 52, 53, 87

Chaucer, 20, 43, 55, 63, 64, 69, 94, 96, 97, 113, 133, 134, 140, 141, 143, 160, 163-86

Chevelere Assigne, 105

Chrestien de Troyes, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 166

Chronicle, The English, 41

Clerk’s Tale, The, 184

Clopinel, Jean, 140

Cockayne, Land of, 132

Complaint to Pity, 173, 178

Confessio Amantis, 133, 167

Courtly Poets, 63, 64, 66, 68

Cuckoo Song, 57, 59

Cursor Mundi, The, 161

Cynewulf, 37, 38, 39, 44

Dante, 8, 9, 65, 66, 75, 144, 160, 168, 171, 177, 179, 181, 185

Deor’s Lament, 38, 119

Deschamps, Eustace, 174

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Dream of the Rood, The, 36, 37

Dryden on Chaucer, 183

Emaré, quoted, 97

Fabliaux, 127-32

Faerie Queene, The, 26, 99

Fall of the Angels, The, 36, 44

Faroese Ballads, 53, 119

Ferabras, Sir, 54

Finnesburgh, The Fight at, 26, 29

Floris and Blanchefleur, 89

France,’ ‘The Matter of, 50-1, 52, 53

Franklin’s Tale, The, 184

French Poetry, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 69, 70, 72, 163, 176

Friars of Berwick, 130

Froissart, 166, 173

Gawain, Sir, 50, 52

Gawain and the Green Knight, 45, 60, 86, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 144

Genesis, Anglo-Saxon poem, 35

Geoffrey of Monmouth, 52, 86, 87

Germania, The, 18, 20, 21, 27

Giraldus Cambrensis, 62, 84, 108

Godric, St., 107, 108, 109

Gower, John, 55, 56, 63, 69, 134, 164, 165, 166, 167

Grimm, 13, 129

Guillaume de Lorris, 140

Guy of Warwick, 98

Hampole, Richard Rolle of, 63, 162

Harleian MS., the, 110-3, 114,116

Havelock the Dane, 45, 88, 89

Henryson, Robert, 125

Hous of Fame, The, 143, 170, 178, 184

Huchoun, 106

Huon of Bordeaux, Sir, 25

Ipomedon, Romance of, 76, 77, 78, 79

Kerry Recruit, The, 57, 58

King Horn, 88, 89, 98

Knight’s Tale, The, 175, 181, 182

Lais, Breton, 83, 86, 94

Launfal, Sir, 83, 84, 93

Layamon’s Brut, 45, 52, 87, 88, 153, 154

Legend of Good Women, The, 66, 72, 143, 168, 174, 183, 184

Lewes, Song on the Battle of, 111

Libeaus, Sir, 98, 99, 100, 102

Luve Ron, 109

Lydgate, John, 98

Lyndsay, Sir David, 161

Lyric poetry, 56-63, 107-23

Maldon, Battle of, 29, 30, 33, 39, 40, 43, 52

Malmesbury, William of, 44

Malory, 86, 88

Man in the Moon, 113

Map, Walter, 84, 87

Marie de France, 83, 84, 86, 94

Melibeus, 169

Michael of Kildare, Friar, 113

Minnesingers, 67, 69

Minot, Laurence, 95, 112

Monk’s Tale, The, 185

Moral Ode, 152, 153

Morte Arthure, in alliterative verse, 45, 60, 86, 105, 106

Nibelungenlied, 21, 22, 29, 48

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Odyssey, The, 24

Ohthere, 19, 20

Orfeo, Sir, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 117

Ormulum, 57, 58, 59, 151

Osborne, Dorothy, 81

Ovid, read by French poets, 72, 176

Owl and the Nightingale, The, 64, 133-6

Parliament of Birds, 181, 183

Pearl, 103, 143

Petrarch, 49, 65, 66, 75, 143

Piers Plowman, 30, 31, 45, 143, 144-9

Provençal poetry, 67, 68, 69

Reynard the Fox, 124-7

Riddles, Anglo-Saxon, 40

Rime of Sir Thopas, 79, 94, 96, 97, 103, 104, 168, 178

Robert of Brunne, 159

Robert of Gloucester, 158, 178

Robin Hood, 122

Roland, 51, 52, 53

Roman d’Eneas, 71, 73, 176

Roman de Troie, 51, 52, 53, 71, 105

Rome,’ ‘The Matter of, 50, 51

Rood, Dream of the, 36, 37

Rose, Roman de la, 139-43, 163, 166, 167, 171, 173

Ruin, The, 39, 44

Ruskin, 8, 9

Ruthwell verses, the, 37

St. Cecilia, Life of, 178, 179

Saints, Lives of the, 43, 159

Salomon and Saturnus, 40

Saxo Grammaticus, 28, 48, 66

Science, popular, 160

Scottish Field, The, 30

Seafarer, The, 39

Seven Wise Masters of Rome, 137, 167

Sidney, Sir Philip, 72

Sigfred (Sigurd, or Siegfried the Volsung), 21, 22, 27

Sirith, Dame, 127

Soul’s Ward, 157

Spenser, 65, 73, 75, 99, 139

Tacitus, 18

Thomas de Hales, Friar, 109

Thopas, Rime of Sir, 79, 94, 96, 97, 103, 104, 168, 178

Tristrem, Sir, 90, 94, 99, 100, 120

Troilus and Criseyde, 51, 168, 170, 181, 182, 186

Verse, Anglo-Saxon, 30-40

—later alliterative, 45, 46

—rhyming, 57, 58, 59, 79, 114, 115, 178, 179

Voltaire, 49

Vox and the Wolf, The, 124

Waldere, Anglo-Saxon poem, 16, 22, 29

Wanderer, The, 39, 44

Wayland Smith, 34

Welsh poet writing English, 114

Widsith, 22, 26, 33, 38, 119

Wife’s Complaint, The, 39

William of Malmesbury, 28, 44

William of Palerne (or William and the Werwolf), 55, 105

William of Poitiers, 47, 48, 114

Wycliffe, 42

Ypotis, 98

Ywain and Gawain, 80

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